20110117 snapshot crashes with rxvt and tcsh

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Jan 28 13:30:00 GMT 2011


On Jan 27 23:32, Russell Randolph wrote:
> I am having tcsh "out of memory" problems when running tcsh under
> rxvt with the latest snapshot (20110127).  I do not see the failure
> if I am not running under rxvt.  I also do not see the problem
> if I repeatedly run bash shells.  This problem also existed with 
> the 20101201 snapshot.  That snapshot fixed other tcsh crashes, so
> before that I don't know if this problem was causing some of the
> crashes or not.
> 
> To reproduce the problem, in a cygwin.bat window:
> 
> /bin/rxvt -e /bin/bash
> 
> In that rxvt window execute:
> 
> while TRUE; do /bin/tcsh -fc date; done

Tried it.  I'm using the latest Cygwin and tcsh from their respective
CVS repositories.  I can't reproduce the issue, even running your test
for more than an hour.


Corinna

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